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Rock musicians talk about second albums being like painful births, but rarely is it said of album number six. For Josh Homme, formidable leader of Queens of the Stone Age, however, his album six has been his toughest yet. In fact, Like Clockwork, almost didn’t happen at all.»

Daft Punk's Random Access Memories is a lavish celebration of a time when dance music was human and had a proper beating heart, told through the eyes of two robots who have redefined computer music. It’s when pop-rock was easy and groovy, when the people that played it had impressive facial hair and their melodies had the bronze glow of a sunset over the Pacific Coast. It’s also bloody bonkers.»

“I love playing on Sunday,” gibes Canadian sonic polymath Chilly Gonzales. “You’ve already taken all of your drugs, so I have you right where I want you: almost sober.” The audience titters, even though he is selling them a little short. »

Polly Jean Harvey’s illustrious career makes the kind of Herculean reading that causes our over-anxious generation of success-hungry twentysomethings to quake in its distressed leather army boots. At 41, she has achieved the kinds of heights that most musicians dream of, but rarely reach. »

On Friday DiS has the good fortune to speak to enigmatic English rose PJ Harvey and she revealed that, these days, she is more inclined to scribble down words than compose music, which was the starting point for her forthcoming album Let England Shake.»